William R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852 old alaska map Daniel Webster 1865 — a

Daniel Webster 1865 — a posthumous likeness of the Massachusetts orator issued more than a decade after his death

and any space drawn to the long sweep of American historical memory

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Commemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 — a chromolithograph in the post-war key of remembrance

the language of freedom set in type while the war that would enforce it still smoldered across half a continent

William R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852 old alaska map Daniel Webster 1865 — aWilliam R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852. A campaign portrait of the Alabama senator yoked to Franklin Pierce on a ticket that bet the Union on compromise King would win the office and die before he could meaningfully hold it, his lithographed dignity outlasting his lungs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,